Like all the large power companies, Southern Company is set up to keep producing power and making money regardless of what happens with CAGW — what is important to them is not what the results of
the research they fund say, but that those results allow the company to make accurate decisions on what the most profitable form of power generation is.
State officials who run the stem cell
research fund say they're trying to emphasize collaboration between academics and companies to accelerate the pace of development.
Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal
research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.
The World Cancer
Research Fund says that when it comes to preventing cancer, being as lean as possible in a healthy range is at the top of the list.
«At the end of it,» says Nancy Sizer, Ted's widow and longtime collaborator, «one of
his research funders said, «Now I think it's time for you to get to work on trying to figure out ways to answer some of your own questions.
Not exact matches
«I was really skeptical of this concept at first, since it was so out of the box,»
says Doug Weber, a bioengineer and neuroscientist at DARPA, who helped
fund the neural dust
research.
«My guess is that they are looking at sources of
funding so they can refurbish or revamp their stores here or expand more aggressively,»
said Ben Cavender, Shanghai - based principal at China Market
Research Group.
«
Research indicates that companies with more women in senior management have higher returns on capital, lower volatility, greater client focus, increased innovation and greater long - term orientation,» Krawcheck
says on the webiste promoting the
funds.
«Private companies will ultimately develop these energy breakthroughs, but their work will rely on the kind of basic
research that only governments can
fund,» Gates
said in a statement.
«The tools they gain and the opportunities they earn permanently break the cycles of drug - use, incarceration, and poverty for them and their families, for life,» O'Donnell
said in a statement to Business Insider, pointing us to some
research outlined on The Doe
Fund's website:
«The best predictor of future returns is whether you buy at low or high prices relative to earnings,»
says Chris Brightman, chief investment officer of
Research Affiliates, a firm that oversees strategies for $ 161 billion in mutual
funds and ETFs.
So far, the Capital Connections Series has attracted five capital market participants: BMO Capital Markets, Cormark Securities Inc., Mackie
Research Capital Corporation, Versant Partners Inc., and The Equicom Group Inc. «It's sometimes hard [for technology companies] to be heard, appreciated and actually
funded through the more obvious venture channels,»
says Reid.
Eric Larcheveque, Ledger's chief executive,
said the investment would be used to
fund research and development and expanding his firm's operations around the world.
Eric Larcheveque, Ledger's chief executive,
said the investment would be used to
fund research and development and expanding operations around the world.
HPE hasn't
said how it plans to spend the bulk of the $ 140 million, but The Straits Times of Singapore reported that much of it would go to HPE's new regional headquarters and to
fund the company's
research and development.
But even with that backdrop of investors pouring money into the market, «it's hard to
say I'm not a little surprised,»
said Jay Jacobs, director of
research at Global X
Funds.
David F. Arons, CEO of the National Brain Tumor Society,
said in a statement that the country should be «doubling down on biomedical
research funding, not pulling back,» according to Bloomberg.
Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development
Research Centre of China's State Council,
said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were
funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road
Fund — there was still a huge
funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.
Interested researchers should consider the awards as seed
funding for long projects, and Microsoft
said research teams should not expect the company to continue
funding the projects as they mature.
While the outperformance will reward investors who have remained in actively - managed
funds, it may not be enough to stem the tide of dollars flowing into low - cost passive
funds,
said Todd Rosenbluth, director of mutual
fund research at New York - based CFRA.
Hedge
funds pride themselves, and justify their large fees, by
saying they do tons of
research and find investments off the beaten path.
«It's justifiable to spend more if there are no alternatives in the space and if the trend makes sense,»
said Todd Rosenbluth, S&P Capital IQ's director of ETF and mutual
fund research.
The company also
said it would
fund research of a tool that scans content and flags images, audio and video.
National Geographic, however,
says the revenue
funds nonprofit «conservation, exploration,
research, and education» efforts.
The San Francisco company
said the initial investment will
fund research on vaping and the formation of an expert panel to combat underage use of Juul.
The
funds raised now will be used for technology development,
research and development, and expansion of operations within and outside India, it
said in a statement.
The
funds will be used to expand technology and marketing verticals and 15 % would be spent on
research and development, Gaurav Goel, co-founder, TopRankers,
said.
Later in the session another odd moment came when he was being asked about his relationship with Saint Petersburg University in Russia — where he confirmed he had given talks and workshops, after traveling to the country with friends and proactively getting in touch with the university «to
say hi» — and specifically about some Russian government -
funded research being conducted by researchers there into cyberbullying.
«When the world decides there is no need for fundamental
research and investors can just blindly purchase index
funds and ETFs without any regard to valuation, we
say the time to be fearful is now.»
«It seems such a minor, sideline type of measure, but it does strike at the core of whether a job is workable within the context of family life,»
said Lisa Guide, associate director of the Rockefeller Family
Fund, which has financed
research and advocacy on this subject.
Morningstar's director of ETF
research Scott Burns
said advisors will likely want to see between six and nine months of performance before considering the switch to the ETF, rather than the typical three - year track record for new
funds.
«He is a pragmatist,»
says Olivier J. Blanchard, the director of
research at the International Monetary
Fund who received his economic doctorate from M.I.T. in 1977, a year after Mr. Draghi.
Almost six in 10 adults (57 %)
say they would be willing to pay one dollar more per week in taxes to increase federal
funding for the scientific
research into the causes and treatment of pain.
Former hedge
fund manager and current market commentator Jim Cramer
says to do 30 minutes of
research a week on every stock you own.
Plas
said he will use the
funding for
research and development.
Merck
said in September that it would consider selling the $ 1 billion - a-year consumer health unit to help
fund more
research into prescription drugs.
«There are systemic efforts underway to translate the basic R&D
funding that Toronto's
research community receives each year into marketable companies, products, services and license deals,»
said Dr. Raphael Hofstein, President and CEO, MaRS Innovation.
«It's a change in how he distributes that asset,»
said Ben Silverman,
research director at InsiderScore, noting that Gates has been reducing his stake methodically for years through share sales to
fund his foundation.
«This is all actually economics, not preferences,»
says Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive
Research, a nonprofit group
funded by government and industry grants.
Mak
said Buffett's endorsement is crucial in helping to alleviate the firm's reliance on short - term debt to
fund research and development in its automobile business.
The UK's Natural Environment
Research Council said research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation o
Research Council
said research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation o
research teams from the two countries will work together on five projects, to receive
funding from the Joint UK - China Renewable Energy program as well as financial support from NERC and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
The outflows are not a one - month phenomena: outflows from U.S. equity
funds for the first seven months of 2015 exceeded any previous annual outflows since 1993, the
fund research firms
says.
Top performing
fund managers at Fidelity, Janus Henderson, Hodges Capital and Baron
say that the decline in
research coverage means that they are seeing more small - cap companies that are mispriced and potentially undervalued, giving firms that have the capacity to conduct their own
research an advantage over the long term.
@ Andrew / Hariseldon — short nominal bond
funds will recover quite quickly from a rise in interest rates but the
research I've read
says they do badly in unexpected inflation scenarios.
CCRG will not immediately seek outside
funding,
saying it is in the early stages of its bootstrap process and will soon release details about its inaugural
research conference.
«It would be a pretty huge impact on the auto industry, and also very geographically focused on certain parts of our auto industry,»
said Kristin Dzizcek, a Director with the Center for Automotive
Research, which is
funded by auto manufacturers.
Head of
fund research at Brewin Dolphin, Ben Gutteridge
said the market's response to the sector, for now at least, is not the signal of something more worrying, but equally it is not a good time to be adding to existing holdings.
Bethesda, Md. — based Calvert Investments introduced its
fund in response to demand from advisors and investors,
said Bennett Freeman, senior vice president for sustainability
research and policy.
That
said, I admit I was surprised when the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada agreed in late 2015 to
fund the CMP with a six - year, $ 2.5 - million grant — a decision that was finalized in the final months of Stephen Harper's Conservative government.
It's an important life skill to learn how to manage money so there are some
funds left over after paying off expenses,
says Craig Copeland, author of a new Employee Benefits
Research Institute (ERBI) report.